Radical Muslim inmates are said to be forcing other prisoners — mostly white British men — to convert to Islam in some of the U.K.’s prisons, according to British media reports this week.
The problem of Muslim gangs in the nation’s prisons has become progressively worse since Britain’s Sky News first reported, in 2013, that „British inmates are being bullied into converting to Islam while in jail“ while noting that „The Prison Officers Association says it is symptomatic of the growing power and influence of Muslim gangs in prison.“
This week Nick Timothy, the shadow justice secretary of the opposition Conservative party, has urged the left-of-center Labour Government to root out forced conversions. Timothy posted on X on Tuesday that,“ Islamist gangs control many of our prisons. Conversion to Islam is the only way to stay safe from them. I obtained data showing 1 in 5 Muslim prisoners are white. That’s four times higher than in the general population. This cannot continue.“
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He told the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph that „We know that experts have warned repeatedly about forced conversions taking place behind bars, driven by Islamic gangs,“ Timothy said, adding „We need to be honest that something is not right here – Labour must urgently investigate and stamp out forced conversions in prison.“
A press release from the U.K. Ministry of Justice stated that, „Most prisons show no evidence of gang-based extremism,“ while noting „We have also banned terrorist prisoners from holding positions of authority in corporate worship, e.g. leading the call to prayer, and clamped down on material found in prisons that could be used to spread harmful ideologies of justice.“
According to Nile Gardiner, Director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, this growing trend is having a detrimental effect on the country’s prison system. „It is an absolutely outrageous state of affairs in the British prison system. This also poses a very significant national security risk for the United Kingdom. The British government appears to have lost control over its prisons, which have become jihadist training camps,“ Gardiner, who advised Lady Thatcher, told Fox News Digital.
He added that „urgent actions needs to be taken“ in response to „the level of forced Islamization in British jails.“
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The number of incarcerated Muslims has its origins in a defective British immigration policy, said Gardiner. According to The Telegraph, „the number of Muslim prisoners in jails in England and Wales has also increased and accounts for nearly one in five (18%) of the prison population, despite making up 6.5% of the general population.“
Gardiner told Fox News Digital that „It is very clear that large-scale Islamic migration into the United Kingdom is having a direct impact on crime and public safety in the United Kingdom. And the growing Islamization of Britain carries with it immense risks for British national security and crime. The inflow of Islamic migrants is a real threat to Britain’s future.“
Jonathan Hall, the British government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, wrote in his 2022 report titled „Terrorism in Prisons“ that he secured evidence that Islamist terrorists are behaving and acting as „self-styled emirs.“
He added that the terrorists are „exerting a controlling and radicalising influence on the wider Muslim prison population (including through enforcers, whilst keeping their hands clean); recruitment (in particular of vulnerable or lonely prisoners, using guidance, sharing of food or material gifts), and conversion backed by implicit or actual violence; soliciting or accepting menial tasks (such as cell-cleaning) from lower status prisoners.“
A spokesperson from the ministry told Fox News Digital that, „We do not tolerate intimidation, gang activity or faith-based coercion of any kind in our prisons.“ The spokesperson added, „Prisons and staff act swiftly to clamp down on all threatening behavior from any groups or individuals.“
According to the Justice spokesperson, „Forced religious conversions are not tolerated across the prison estate. In response to the report from the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, Jonathan Hall, HMPPS [His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service] carried out a review into the influence of faith-based gangs. Following the review, HMPPS has improved the ability to identify nascent extremist gang activity and disrupt it before it takes hold via advanced training and data collection.“
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An independent review by Colin Bloom, a British government advisor, looking at how the government engages with faith, in part stated, that „Failure to identify as a Muslim meant that at best the new prisoner would be denied ‘protection’ from the dominant Muslim gang on that wing, or at worst the new prisoner would be subjected to violence and intimidation from that same gang. „
According to a Fox News Digital review of the 2023 Bloom report, the 159-page study noted that „The 2019 Ministry of Justice report on separating extremist prisoners noted the growing problem of religious extremism across the prison estate, including the „aggressive encouragement of conversions to Islam.“
Bloom had previously told GB News that there are some very good (Muslim) chaplains and excellent practices in prison, but „there is also, I think fair to say, that a number of prisons there are very large and aggressive Islamist gangs… where evidence was given to me and my review where Koran’s were put on the bed of incoming inmates with the very clear indication convert or get hurt, and it was a way of coercing people to say, you know if you want to be protected in prison then you have to convert and become part of our gang.“
Bloom noted that „prisons are actually a much more religious place than the rest of society. More people have a faith if they’re in prison than not. But even by the standards of the most amazing, you know revivals religious conversions, there is something going on in prisons because we are seeing the most incredible number of people converting, particularly to Islam, in a way that is defies logic. And I think one of the things that we need to ensure that prison chaplains and prison management have is that inquiring mind to say just what the heck is going on here. This doesn’t seem right.“
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